Social Studies

History Pockets-Native Americans, Grades 1–3, contains nine memorable discovery pockets. The introduction pocket gives an overview of the tribes in North America that are featured. The other pockets focus on food, clothing, shelter, and family life of eight Native American tribes.

Each of the pockets contains:

a reproducible pocket label

three dictionary words and pictures, plus a shelter stamp

a fact sheet of background information for the teacher

a reproducible students information booklet complete with illustrations

arts and crafts projects

writing activities

Evaluation forms are provided at the end of the book to give students a chance to reflect on all they have learned.

The book includes the following pockets:

Introduction to Native Americans

The Inuit of the Arctic

The Tlingit of the Northwest

The Nez Perce of the Plateau

The Maidu of California

The Sioux of the Plains

The Navajo of the Southwest

The Iroquois of the Northeast

The Seminole of the Southeast

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

This important period of our country's history will come to life when students create the exciting projects presented in The American Revolution. You get information pages, maps, a timeline, arts and crafts projects, reading and writing connections, and evaluation forms. The teacher pages feature step-by-step project directions and photographs of the completed projects.

The topics presented are:Introduction to the American RevolutionCauses of the WarFamous PatriotsA Soldier's LifeBattlesSpies and TraitorsBirth of a Nation